NASA creates a map from images Triton 1989 – notimerica.com

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Notimérica / EP) -.

The NASA used images of Triton collected by the spacecraft Voyager 2 on August 25, 1989 option to create a new map of the moon of Neptune, as NASA reported on its website.

In this Thus, NASA reported that recording summer 1989 meant the first view of Neptune and its moon Triton for all mankind . This recording has been recovered now harnessed to make a satellite map of the world.

this will map a film that recreates the “historic” tour of Voyager 2. document, which has a resolution of 600 meters per pixel and increased accuracy in locating the salient points to be removed from the blur caused by the camera of Voyager 2, has been prepared investigator of the Lunar and Planetary Institute of Houston, Paul Schenk.

This map has been prepared in anticipation of the meeting “in less than a year” of the space mission manned New Horizons Pluto , according to NASA, which indicates that, although one is the moon of a planet and the other a dwarf planet, both share a common origin to be born in the outer solar system.

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